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INTRODUCTION 



THIS book describes incidents of my own life 

 and in the lives of others I have known; travels 

 in search of big game and Natural History; 

 letters of strange interest by all kinds of men 

 living in many lands; sidelights on the Great 

 War, in fact a conglomeration of anything in life 

 that might prove of interest to men and women who 

 move about and do things a little out of the ordinary 

 ruck. They have been set down rather as the 

 spirit moved me to write, and if somewhat disjointed, 

 I trust they will appeal to other rovers like myself. 

 If variety is the spice of life, perhaps even such 

 tales as these may find their readers amongst those 

 who have followed the open road. 



J. G. MlLLAIS. 



Compton's Brow, Horsham. 

 July 1919. 



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